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DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie H. Cecil.

Although desalination systems saw widespread use in maritime settings throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, mechanical improvements in the mid-1800s increased the utility of this technology for military purposes – specifically, the occupation and defense of otherwise uninhabitable lands. This paper examines the implementation and impacts of desalination technologies in one such location. Situated halfway between Hawaii and the Philippines, Wake Atoll is devoid of any natural source of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Keen. Benjamin Lipke.

The report completed a review of previous cultural resources studies and archaeological and historic architectural within 0.25 mile of the proposed logistics facility project area. No archaeological sites were identified within the archaeological APE. Due to prior disturbances, lack of soil integrity, and absence of previously recorded historic properties, HDR recommends no further cultural resources work within the archaeological and architectural APE. The report identified 23 previously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy C. Brunette.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Manhattan Project brought scientists, support staff, members of the U.S. military and skilled craftsmen together on the remote Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico with a common goal of bringing an end to World War II. As the project evolved from its beginning in 1943 to its official end in December of 1946, as new laboratories and testing areas were constructed for specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul R. Mullins. Timo Ylimaunu.

Cutting across the Arctic Circle in the heart of Finnish Lapland, Santa Claus Village celebrates familiar holiday legends while offering visits with Santa and the opportunity to purchase a host of consumer goods.  The Yuletide tourist attraction north of Rovaniemi sits on a landscape that was a Luftwaffe airbase during World War II, and many of the foundations of the massive base’s support structures visibly dot the forests around Santa Claus land.  The history of Finland’s status as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary D. Vest.

A letter concerning foreclosure for the rehabilitation of Buildings 902, 216, 661, and 675 at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. This letter is part of a large packet of correspondence and associated documents concerning a complex proposal of undertakings for World War II temporary buildings located on Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Many of the documents are drafts and letters from internal circulation within Randolph Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Brunette. Jonathan Stark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty years ago, cultural resource managers produced a multiple-property evaluation of extant Manhattan Project properties at Los Alamos National Laboratory titled “Sentinels of the Atomic Dawn.” “Sentinels” recorded 49 standing buildings and two archaeological sites. Since that initial evaluation, 29 of the 49 buildings have been demolished and the two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel R King.

S.S. Thomas T. Tucker, a U.S. Liberty Ship operated by the Merchants and Miners Company on behalf of the US Maritime Commission, was part of the 42-ship convoy carrying material to the British African Front during World War II. The ship was reported lost in action carrying an assortment of British lend-lease and wartime purchase cargo. This disarticulated beach shipwreck site provides an ideal educational opportunity for students to conduct basic pre-disturbance archaeological recording,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Cullinane Associates, Annapolis, MD.

"The report describes rehabilitation activites at the National Register-eligible Scott Plaza Family Housing Area in Fort Dix, New Jersey and documents their conformance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties (Treatment Standards). Between October 2007 and April 2008, John Cullinane Associates made six monthly visits to the Scott Plaza Family Housing Area in order to monitor rehabilitation activities in buildings 5413, 5414, 5415, 5419, 5420, 5421,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Cullinane Associates.

Fort Dix commissioned an architectural history survey and conditions assessment for the Scott Plaza Family Housing Historic District's 7 Georgian Revival residential buildings, 3 associated garages, and 2 associated transformer vault buildings and landscaping. The Information Package that describes the contributing (NRHP eligible) structures and buildings and historic landscapes in compliance with a Programmatic Agreement among the Army Air Force, and NJHPO. Renovations begun in November 2006...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Toney. Michael Desilets.

In early 2016, Garcia & Associates conducted forensic archaeological investigations for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. DPAA (formerly JPAC) is the Department of Defense agency tasked with providing the fullest possible accounting for missing American service personnel from past wars. During World War II, the Battle for Guadalcanal lasted from 7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943 and included intense ground fighting to secure the airstrip known as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael E. O'Hara. Emily Dale.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With the impact of World War II and the development of Route 66, Flagstaff, Arizona grew exponentially from the 1940s to the 1960s. This growth is seen through a series of domestic artifacts collected at a home in Flagstaff’s Southside Historic District. Due to a lack of archaeological context, in this poster, we explore the items through the history of the Carrenos, a Hispanic family who...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James P. Delgado. Michael L. Brennan.

In 2016, a joint NOAA/Ocean Exploration Trust mission in the E/V nautilus conducted a series of telepresence-enabled dives on the carrier Independence, a World War II veteran used as a target ship in the 1946 atomic weapons tests at Bikini Atoll.  Subsequently used as a floating laboratory and a post-nuclear attack training platform by the US Navy, Independence rests in 822 meters of water where it was scuttled in 1951.  The dives, the first to survey and document the wreck, were shared with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick H. Hanselmann. Austin Burkhard. Jason J. Nunn. Arthur C.R. Gleason. Jessica Keller. D. Blair Moore.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Near the end of WWII, a B-25G departed an airfield in Trinidad for a 50 mile, 4-hour long photographic mission to Tobago. After hearing an airplane overhead, eye witness accounts detailed a craft with potential engine problems that turned into a ball of smoke and flame that plummeted from an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Edwards. Jeffrey Wedding.

For archaeologists, the term geoglyph typically conjures up images of enormous carved landscapes such as the Nazca Lines in Peru or the Blythe Intaglios in California’s Mojave Desert. But the creation of earth drawings is not restricted to people of the distant past. Modern populations have also been known to produce their own geoglyphs. Like their prehistoric predecessors, many contemporary geoglyphs have spiritual or ceremonial significance, but others were generated for purely functional...